Out & About: Día de los Muertos (Oct 28-Nov 4)
Dates: October 28 - November 4, 2025
Meetings: Tuesdays (10/28 & 11/4), 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM CST ; Saturday (11/1), TBD (3 sessions)
Location: Online Zoom Classroom (sessions 1 & 3) + Photographing at MECA, Houston (2nd session)
Cost: $290 (HCP members can receive a 10% discount)
Instructor: Danielle Villasana
Skill Level: Intermediate
Widely celebrated in Latin America and by the Latinx diaspora across the world, Día de los Muertos is a tradition rooted in Indigenous and Catholic practices, where families create altars with “ofrendas,” or offerings, photos, marigolds, food, and candles to welcome the spirits of loved ones back for a brief visit. This visually-striking celebration is filled with symbolic colors and community gatherings that honor ancestry and cultural continuity, offering the opportunity to photograph images that transform remembrance into a captivating expression of life and memory.
In this action-packed course, students are introduced to the building blocks of visual storytelling and encouraged to strengthen their aesthetic abilities, covering everything from composition to photographing the decisive moment. This three-part course includes preparation and research as well as photographing in-the-field with the instructor where students will see how to approach an event photographically, how to interact with people photographed, how to wait for the perfect moment, and how to gather a cornucopia of photographs to build a viable visual story.
Objectives:
Strengthen compositional skills, including perspective, point of view, layering, light, rule of thirds, & more
Develop your artistic voice and practice framing subjects “photographically”
Explore approaches to storytelling, such as photographing decisive moments, environmental portraiture, sense of place, & more
Build a plan before the event, employing skills such as a photography list, memory mapping, and what you’ll need to be successful in the field
Create a photo story through editing and sequencing in a group critique setting
Prerequisites:
Photography I or being comfortable using your camera in Manual mode.
Course Prep:
To get a sense of where you are photographically, please send a portfolio of images that represent your work (5-20 images total). Submission instructions will be emailed to registrants before the class.
Dates: October 28 - November 4, 2025
Meetings: Tuesdays (10/28 & 11/4), 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM CST ; Saturday (11/1), TBD (3 sessions)
Location: Online Zoom Classroom (sessions 1 & 3) + Photographing at MECA, Houston (2nd session)
Cost: $290 (HCP members can receive a 10% discount)
Instructor: Danielle Villasana
Skill Level: Intermediate
Widely celebrated in Latin America and by the Latinx diaspora across the world, Día de los Muertos is a tradition rooted in Indigenous and Catholic practices, where families create altars with “ofrendas,” or offerings, photos, marigolds, food, and candles to welcome the spirits of loved ones back for a brief visit. This visually-striking celebration is filled with symbolic colors and community gatherings that honor ancestry and cultural continuity, offering the opportunity to photograph images that transform remembrance into a captivating expression of life and memory.
In this action-packed course, students are introduced to the building blocks of visual storytelling and encouraged to strengthen their aesthetic abilities, covering everything from composition to photographing the decisive moment. This three-part course includes preparation and research as well as photographing in-the-field with the instructor where students will see how to approach an event photographically, how to interact with people photographed, how to wait for the perfect moment, and how to gather a cornucopia of photographs to build a viable visual story.
Objectives:
Strengthen compositional skills, including perspective, point of view, layering, light, rule of thirds, & more
Develop your artistic voice and practice framing subjects “photographically”
Explore approaches to storytelling, such as photographing decisive moments, environmental portraiture, sense of place, & more
Build a plan before the event, employing skills such as a photography list, memory mapping, and what you’ll need to be successful in the field
Create a photo story through editing and sequencing in a group critique setting
Prerequisites:
Photography I or being comfortable using your camera in Manual mode.
Course Prep:
To get a sense of where you are photographically, please send a portfolio of images that represent your work (5-20 images total). Submission instructions will be emailed to registrants before the class.
Dates: October 28 - November 4, 2025
Meetings: Tuesdays (10/28 & 11/4), 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM CST ; Saturday (11/1), TBD (3 sessions)
Location: Online Zoom Classroom (sessions 1 & 3) + Photographing at MECA, Houston (2nd session)
Cost: $290 (HCP members can receive a 10% discount)
Instructor: Danielle Villasana
Skill Level: Intermediate
Widely celebrated in Latin America and by the Latinx diaspora across the world, Día de los Muertos is a tradition rooted in Indigenous and Catholic practices, where families create altars with “ofrendas,” or offerings, photos, marigolds, food, and candles to welcome the spirits of loved ones back for a brief visit. This visually-striking celebration is filled with symbolic colors and community gatherings that honor ancestry and cultural continuity, offering the opportunity to photograph images that transform remembrance into a captivating expression of life and memory.
In this action-packed course, students are introduced to the building blocks of visual storytelling and encouraged to strengthen their aesthetic abilities, covering everything from composition to photographing the decisive moment. This three-part course includes preparation and research as well as photographing in-the-field with the instructor where students will see how to approach an event photographically, how to interact with people photographed, how to wait for the perfect moment, and how to gather a cornucopia of photographs to build a viable visual story.
Objectives:
Strengthen compositional skills, including perspective, point of view, layering, light, rule of thirds, & more
Develop your artistic voice and practice framing subjects “photographically”
Explore approaches to storytelling, such as photographing decisive moments, environmental portraiture, sense of place, & more
Build a plan before the event, employing skills such as a photography list, memory mapping, and what you’ll need to be successful in the field
Create a photo story through editing and sequencing in a group critique setting
Prerequisites:
Photography I or being comfortable using your camera in Manual mode.
Course Prep:
To get a sense of where you are photographically, please send a portfolio of images that represent your work (5-20 images total). Submission instructions will be emailed to registrants before the class.
Images: Danielle Villasana
